oop's....it got away and smash!!!

[Matthew Stuart]

Hey Guy's
I took my girlfriend out for dinner Sat. night and had some pretty strong margarita's....really!! along with the beer on the golf course earlier. As I remember???? I turned the corner and got straight and hit it pretty hard, it started spinning and hit second and I lost it...started doing circles that ended up into a metal light pole and then across the road again and broke the back rim. I need evervthing forward of the fan including hood although the radiator and transmission cooler are fine but not the metal structure they sit on ...It took me two days to go into the garage and look at it. Ripped bumper and header panel completely off the car. Got out of there... still driveable and went back next morning and collected the debris. The only lucky thing is both fenders have not a scratch??? Questions: Will all parts 84-87 regals.... turbo or not be interchangable and the damage I am really concerned about is the frame that the bumper mounts to. I bent one side pretty bad just the very front say 12 inches..any experience from you guys on damage like this...I am certainly down for quite awhile and am soooo bummed...!!! Thanks all.

 

[WH1 85]

I don't know about the frame. But that sounds like big trouble to me. Might be able to be fixed/straightened?

As far as header panel, grill, bumber and supports goes, any 84 to 87 regal is the same. Well except for the black grill and the hood ornament on the header panel.

 

[kh440]

As far as the frame GM says any 82-87 G-body will interchange, and frame repair has come a long way over the years, if its only bent on rail at the end you should be OK, the rest of the body parts do interchange 84-87 except obviously the hood.

 

[TireFryer]

lucky...

You are lucky you got away with damage only to your car and no one else, including you, your girlfriend or any innocent bystanders/drivers who might have happened to be around you at the time. I don't care what anyone says, drinking and driving is reckless and no one has any excuse to be driving after drinking...PERIOD. What you do with your life is fine and I don;t care, and I am not here to judge you or anyone on that matter, but when the actions of those who drink and drive could have potentially disasterous consequences on the life of others, then I have an issue with that. Again, I am glad no one was hurt in the incident other than the car...the car can be fixed or replaced, but not a human life! Good luck finding parts...

 

[JayLashua]

uhh.. have you any idea how stupid you look? "I was out drinking and i decided to drive like an ass and i wrecked my car! help!"

Thats ****ing stupid and I hope you either sell the car, or get picked up by the cops next time so you'll think twice about endangering yourself and others because you're a stupid ass and didn't know when to say "when".

 

[JayLashua]

uhh.. have you any idea how stupid you look? "I was out drinking and i decided to drive like an ass and i wrecked my car! help!"

Thats ****ing stupid and I hope you either sell the car, or get picked up by the cops next time so you'll think twice about endangering yourself and others because you're a stupid ass and didn't know when to say "when".

 

[Tom87GN]

I hope this thread is a joke. Because, if it's not really a joke, it's a joke.

This is precisely why I will never drink and drive. Now I just have to watch out for idiots like this guy. Guess if I hear a TR coming my way out of control then I'll know.

Hope you learned your lesson whoever you are.